REDMOND, Washington - March 13, 2012 - It has long been used by James T. Kirk to speak to aliens and blue women from space - but now Microsoft is on the brink of making a real, working Universal Translator.
Frank Soong and Rick Rashid have created software which converts English language speech into any of 26 foreign languages - and which “speaks” in the user's own voice.
All the user has to do is speak English into the machine and it will convert it into anything from Spanish to Mandarin.
Fascists deploy electromagnetic heat ray.
WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 11, 2012 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) military has unveiled their infamous non-lethal weapon - an electromagnetic beam of fierce heat.
When the Active Denial System (ADS) is activated, it beams a high-frequency electromagnetic ray beam at a target up to 0.6 miles (1,000 meters) away.
Mounted on a military vehicle for crowd control, the waves create a heat so uncomfortable the natural response is to flee.
Fascist invention seeks to curtail free speech.
TOKYO, Japan (PNN) - March 2, 2012 - Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence.
Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 100 feet away.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - February 8, 2012 - Researchers at MIT have successfully implanted a “neural probe” into a fist-sized moth, and can steer the moth using electrical signals.
The scientists can tell the moths to turn left and right, and even how hard to turn, much as you might steer a remote controlled plane.
Sandia Labs bullet doesn't miss.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - February 1, 2012 - Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target.
Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile.
Policy would allow same message to be seen in some countries but not others.
NEW YORK (PNN) - January 27, 2012 - Twitter service may be getting spotty in some countries.
The micro-blogging firm announced on the company blog Thursday that it plans to change its censorship policies to comply with oppressive regulations in countries like the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA).
NEW YORK (PNN) - January 27, 2012 - First federal prosecutors said that the file-sharing site Megaupload was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to the music and film industry.
Users of the now defunct site are making allegations of their own now too - and they want to take the FBI to court.
LONDON, England - January 23, 2012 - Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.
HOUSTON, Texas - January 23, 2012 - A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth tomorrow (Jan. 24), as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.
Early this morning (Jan. 22 at 10:59 p.m. EDT), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun, according to the skywatching website Spaceweather.com.
NEW YORK (PNN) - January 20, 2012 - New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is considering a new technology, Terahertz Imaging Detection (TID), to be mounted on thug cop cars, allowing them to roam the streets of New York looking for people carrying guns, in the process violating the rights of countless innocent people.
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